TIL Desk Sports/ After the Indian side successfully demolished England in the first Twenty-20 International, ace spinner Kuldeep Yadav said the accurate execution of his plan helped him bag five wickets here. “The pitch did not have much turn. I, personally, did not want to give pace to the English batsmen as it would have made batting easy for them. I executed my plan very well,” he said at a post-match presser.
Kuldeep, who dismissed Eoin Morgan, Jonny Bairstow and Joie Root in the same over on his way to his first five-wicket haul in T20Is said that the variation in pace that he deployed was key in deceiving the English batsmen.
“The ball wasn’t turning much, (Yuzvinder) Chahal, who bowled before me, also confirmed the same, so I focused on varying my pace, and the flight of my deliveries. This was the key and it helped me in getting the wickets. I don’t think about the batsmen while bowling, I focus on what I can do,” he said.
“Sometimes, however, you need to consider the batsman. When I was bowling to Jos Buttler, because I know him well, have bowled a lot to him in the IPL, I knew that he wouldn’t take risks against me and would only take singles, which I was happy to give,” Yadav added.
